Jump to content
The Community Blog (An Invitation)

Humanoid

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4649

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    14

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Humanoid

  1. Humanoid
    Yeah, and the "waiting for Titanfall" game would be like the "waiting for SimCity" server fail game. :D
  2. Humanoid
    Uninstall then smash the disc to pieces.
  3. Humanoid
    Oh right, yeah, the boxed copies will contain Steam keys. Do note however, that there is a region lock on the activation of some keys, e.g. you can't activate a key from a US box to a European Steam account without using a VPN.
  4. Humanoid
    This is a Steamworks game, not a Uplay game, so yes, you can. Buying from the Steam store as a gift will result in a giftable copy in your Steam inventory. Buying from another digital games reseller (such as GreenManGaming or GamersGate) will just give you a Steam key that your friend can redeem.
  5. Humanoid
    Angela Merkel?
  6. Humanoid
    I studied some form of computing and am therefore on safe ground as male and female connector plugs occur in almost 1:1 proportions.
  7. Humanoid
    Is that statement intended to be one of praise for those two games, or a subtle damning of the third game?
  8. Humanoid
    How do you set a curriculum? a) Cover the events of history by order of significance and explore their protagonists by their roles in said event. b) Select figures of history by their physiology (not just gender) in proportions according to some set quota, then explore what events each happened to be involved in. I think the perception that the latter is happening in some institutions is what's mainly drawing ire here.
  9. Humanoid
    Remember how Bloodlines abruptly falls off a cliff about two-thirds in? Lionheart falls off the cliff about a quarter* of the way in, as soon as you leave the initial city. * Never played it through so it's a rough guess, someone who's suffered through it can probably give a better estimate.
  10. Humanoid
    Also better without darkspawn and demons and whatnot. And elves, obviously.
  11. Humanoid
    I'm concerned that I have to walk two miles off the beaten road to use the services. How am I supposed to hold it in that long?
  12. Humanoid
    If you're referring to storyline or dialogue choices, then I don't really consider that to be a defining or essential feature of the genre. All RPGs have to have some kind of numerical progression in place, but not all of them have to have storyline and dialogue choices. A lot of the old RPGs didn't even have much of a storyline or dialogue at all, let alone choices to make. Choices are just something that has been taken from the adventure genre later on and added to RPGs in order to give them more flavour and complexity. It doesn't matter how you interpret such choices, they are by no means a defining feature of an RPG on their own. Those old games were rubbish and something I'm glad we've left behind. Less bluntly and therefore less in keeping with this topic title, plenty of PnP RPG sessions end without a single dice being rolled. That's not to say they have no conditionals or element of chance, but the variables aren't really numerical as such. I mean technically you could have a gender stat that's either 0 or 1 I guess - or indeed 0.5. (Perhaps disconcertingly, I'm enjoying indulging my inner Volourn in this way)
  13. Humanoid
    I for one am glad Bruce doesn't type with the inflections of the South African accent.
  14. Humanoid
    He's the secret super-difficult undocumented romance option, one wrong dialogue choice and it's over, you're locked out forever.
  15. Humanoid
    I don't remember anything at all about Fallout 3's DRM, which is probably the kindest thing I can say about it. I mean I have the disc edition, but if not for people in recent times talking about how the shutdown of GFWL would affect the game, I wouldn't have even pegged it as having GFWL. That said, it's partly because as a utterly terrible game, I may have only actually launched it a few times and absent-mindedly clicked whatever prompts it had away. The only game in my list I can say I know involved GFWL is Street Fighter 4, but I clicked away all the prompts there too - and again it's a game I've barely played.
  16. Humanoid
    An RPG is just an adventure game where you get to choose options not because they're correct but because they're in character. You want some degree of persistence in an RPG, but it need not be in the form of stats or any other numerical scale, it simply needs to track those past options, be they binary, ternary or n-ary.
  17. Humanoid
    You're missing the fade to black.
  18. Humanoid
    I think we should go back to communicating exclusively with pheromones. Hopefully some clever clogs comes up with a way to transmit pheromones electronically soon.
  19. Humanoid
    That one bit in Saints Row 3 (an otherwise thoroughly ordinary game), where you're just cruising around town with Pierce while singing together, distills the essence of friendship far better in the course of two minutes than all the interactions in Mass Effect put together, romance or no.
  20. Humanoid
    Well if the universe runs cyclically, you could go back far enough to cause an integer underflow and see thus the end of days.
  21. Humanoid
    A C- RPG is one that offers some diversionary entertainment but is thoroughly mediocre in most ways. Some RPGs that might warrant a C- rating include Morrowind, Icewind Dale, Ultima 8, Might and Magic 6, Neverwinter Nights 2, Divine Divinity, and Dragon Age: Origins.
  22. Humanoid
    No source handy, but apparently sales numbers were similar to the first game. In that context it would be a failure, since with the goodwill, added development and marketing costs and free hype, they've failed to garner more sales. At least 2K in this context have implicitly conceded that it's a matter of the game costing too much to make, rather than trying to claim that the game should have shifted so many more units. That's the sensible path to take instead of gambling on even bigger blockbusters trying to be the next GTA or COD. Remember EA saying Dead Space 3 needed to shift 5 million copies to have a future? That's the opposite approach.
  23. Humanoid
    True, it's one of those things they reserve the right to do, but as far as I know, has never been done. That said, if you were being ultra cautious you could register a new, separate Steam account for the game alone. (For those with the patience, it's a pretty good policy in general as it means second hand PC game sales are still alive)
  24. Humanoid
    Canadian adult TV channels in trouble for not showing enough locally produced smut. Won't somebody think of the Canadian porn stars? For some reason I end up posting exclusively Canadian news in these threads.
  25. Humanoid
    Couple days left on Tabletop Simulator. No, not that kind of tabletop activity.
×
×
  • Create New...